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Peyton Foley

Peyton spends much of his time volunteering at The Sandy Springs International Adult Learning Center in the Atlanta area, where he teaches students reading, writing, and pronunciation two hours a week. He has recently taken up barefoot running, because it makes this natural activity take a simpler and more exiting course.

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Good Water

Peyton Foley

2013-07-09

  I sit on a garden wall in the front yard of the dead artist Guayasumin and around me are beautifully placed plants amidst walkways, a mix of green and white. The breathtaking view of little toy buildings that fade into the distance falls steeply before my feet. Quito, Ecuador’s capitol, swims in the basin...

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The Courtyard

Peyton Foley

2013-04-07

I rest on the edge of a school courtyard wall. It appears ready to crumble, as if my weight were actually centering the worn bricks and pinning them together less they slide apart like Jenga blocks. The other, less fortunate walls lay fallen in the aged courtyard, scattered by time. Below my perch rest the cabbages, carrots, lettuce, and...

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